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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(126,533 posts)
Thu Jul 3, 2025, 02:07 PM Jul 3

U.S. citizen seeks $1M after arrest, detention for recording immigration raid at Home Depot

The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund is demanding the federal government pay $1 million in damages to a U.S. citizen who was arrested and detained while he was recording an immigration raid at a Home Depot in Los Angeles last month.

MALDEF put the government on notice of a coming civil lawsuit for what it says were assault, battery, false arrest and false imprisonment against Job Garcia, 37.

Garcia, a Ph.D. student and photographer, was tackled and thrown to the ground by agents in the Home Depot parking lot in Hollywood, arrested and held for more than 24 hours, MALDEF said.

It said Wednesday that it submitted the claim against Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Protection, the U.S. Border Patrol and other Department of Homeland Security agencies involved in Garcia's arrest.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-citizen-seeks-1m-arrest-223248110.html

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U.S. citizen seeks $1M after arrest, detention for recording immigration raid at Home Depot (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 3 OP
Everyone touched by this stuff needs to sue and enjoin and tie their lawyers up. marble falls Jul 3 #1
If they aren't doing anything wrong TexasBushwhacker Jul 3 #2
Black Water and Jan 6ers don't want to be id'd. We freaked them out when we id'd so many of them at the Capitol. marble falls Jul 3 #3
THIS !!! Hit them in the pockets!!! uponit7771 Jul 3 #4
Why doesn't LA just file criminal charges? MichMan Jul 3 #5

TexasBushwhacker

(20,950 posts)
2. If they aren't doing anything wrong
Thu Jul 3, 2025, 02:09 PM
Jul 3

they shouldn't have an issue with being recorded. They also shouldn't be covering their faces.

marble falls

(67,162 posts)
3. Black Water and Jan 6ers don't want to be id'd. We freaked them out when we id'd so many of them at the Capitol.
Thu Jul 3, 2025, 02:11 PM
Jul 3
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